The parents of more possible victims of a Main Line man accused of secretly recording naked young women in store dressing rooms are coming forward.
Police arrested 37-year-old Sean Moses on Monday at the Penn Valley home where he lives with his girlfriend and his 6-year-old daughter and charged him with dozens of counts of invasion of privacy and a count of child pornography. He was jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail.
"Probably the biggest invasion of privacy case I've ever seen," said Radnor Township Police Superintendent William Colarulo. “What Mr. Moses was involved in … is nothing less than can be described as being despicable and offensive to unsuspecting female victims of all ages."
Moses was seen on a cellphone video he recorded at the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia reaching under doors to videotape women changing in dressing rooms at stores including Forever 21 and Express, police said.
Colarulo said detectives found the videos posted on porn sites and tracked them back to Moses. From a previous unrelated incident, Detective Thomas Schreiber learned that people engaged in these crimes tend to post the videos online.
"He did an exhaustive search on the Internet and Detective Schreiber actually located the videos that Mr. Moses took of our unsuspecting victims," Colarulo said.
At least 69 videos were filmed at the Forever 21 store and posted online, according to an affidavit of probable cause.
Moses would lie on the floor of fitting rooms that had stalls that stopped about 2 feet from the floor, giving him "easy access to record from a ground up direction," the affidavit said. In the videos, one woman sees the camera and flashes an obscene gesture at it, and another woman takes a photo of it, but neither came forward to police. A complaint was filed by a mother and a daughter in December, but they never reported the incident to the police.
Police said they started investigating allegations of video voyeurism against Moses in September, when two Villanova University students in Bryn Mawr reported seeing a camera light in their window. Police said they found a video Moses uploaded of the women labeled "Amazing Brunette and roommate who noticed peep."
On Wednesday Radnor Police told NBC10 they received up to 50 phone calls and emails from parents since Moses' arrest. The parents said they want to come in and look at the videos to make sure their daughters aren't on them. Investigators also say they found files on Moses' computer indicating he had videos from other local malls.
"There were deleted indexes which show different names of malls," said Schreiber. "It's only going to show a thumbnail. But it says Springfield Mall, Cherry Hill Mall and Philadelphia Premium Outlets up in Limerick."
Radnor detectives are currently reaching out to police in those areas. They are also looking into a tip Moses may have worked at an area department store.
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Police asked anyone who may think they were a victim of Moses to contact Radnor Police at 610-688-5606 ext. 134 or by email.
